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Bermondsey 1937

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1937

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LIGHT TREATMENT, ELECTRO-THERAPY AND MASSAGE—
Work done in the Solarium 39
Leysin Patients 47
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE—
Fairby Grange Convalescent Home 55
Midwifery Service 56
Obstetric and Puerperal Fever Consultants 57
Infant Life Protection 57
Maternal Mortality 57
Work of the Health Visitors 58
Attendances at Centres 59
Extracts from Vital Statistics, 1937 60
DENTAL TREATMENT—
Particulars of Treatment and Work for 1937 66
Particulars of Children Treated 65
CONSULTATION AND OTHER CLINICS-
X-ray Department 67
Post-Infectious Disease Clinic 69
Post-Natal and Special Clinics for Women 71
Children's Clinic 73
Foot Clinic 74
PROPAGANDA 75
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION-
Housing 83
Housing Act, 1936—Overcrowding 85
Eradication of Bed Bugs 86
Inspections and Proceedings 88
Work of the District Inspectors 91
Factories and Workshops—Homework 92
Factories and Workshops—Inspections 93
Bakehouses 94
House, Trade and Market Refuse 94
Offensive Trades 94
Mortuary 95
Street Markets 95
Drainage Work 95
Work of Factories and Shops Inspector 95
FOOD CONTROL—
Imported Food Regulations—Samples taken 101
Unsound Food—Shops and Stalls 108
Work of the Wharves and Food Inspectors 109
Milk Premises 110
Milk Licences 110
Milk Sampling 110
Ice Cream 111
Halibut Liver Oil 144
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 114
Food and Drugs—Samples Taken 115
Food and Drugs—Prosecutions 121
Unsound Food—Wharves, etc. 122
HEALTH SERVICES 127